The Chemical Bond in Inorganic Chemistry

• Presents a simple model of chemical bonding.
• There are no other books that cover this material in any depth.
• The model described is simple enough to be understood by students at the secondary school level.
• The model is finding widespread applications.
• The model is more predictive than any other simple model

Readership: Graduate students, lecturers, and professionals in crystallography, chemistry, condensed matter physics, materials science, mineralogy, and molecular biology.

I. David Brown, Professor Emeritus at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

"A highly readable book ... will appeal to anyone interested in the structure of solids, including crystallographers, structural chemists, and material scientists." - Crystallography News

1: Historical introduction
I: Theory
2: The ionic bond
3: The bond valence model
II: Chemistry
Anion and cation bonding strengths
5: Liquids
6: Cation coordination number
7: Hydrogen bonds
8: Electronically distorted structures
9: Physical properties of bonds
III: Solids
10: Space and space groups
11: Modelling inorganic structures
12: Lattice induced strain
IV: Applications and implications
13: Applications
14: Chemical implications of the bond valence model
A. Bond valence parameters
B. Space group spectra
C. Solution of the network equations
D. Cation and anion bonding strengths
References to the ICSD and the CSD
References
List of symbols
Index